Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …

Indian Parliament. -- political identity ; gender ; mortality ; health ; social preferences ; India …We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …